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Along Broadway, Manhattan, strayed a brindle Great Dane bitch as big as a calf and as heavy as a featherweight boxer, all alone, with her tongue lolling out and a puzzled look in her eyes. The doorman of the Hotel Breslin had never seen a Great Dane bitch before, but unlike the other Manhattanites along the block, he was not frightened. The bitch looked as if she might be worth money; he stepped out and took Her by the collar. An hour later from a Manhattan police station to which the doorman had consigned her. Handler Ben Lewis of Lexington...
Conley expects to build his team of eight or ten men around four champions and runners-up of last year's University boxing tournament, Adam Palaza '31, featherweight; J. J. Mellen '33, lightweight; P. H. Lord '33. Light weight; and M. C. Aldis '32, heavy-weight. Besides these, there is the University squad composed of 24 men at the present time, most of whom have had at least one year's experience in tournaments, either in the University matches at Harvard or at other colleges. The men are evenly divided by weight into all classes except the bantam and heavy...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...
Odds were 3 to i for sallow, hard-hitting Lightweight Champion Al Singer as he met Challenger Tony Canzoneri, once featherweight champion, in Manhattan last week. It was to be 15 rounds and the reporter broadcasting at the ringside made the obvious comment that both men were getting set for a long fight. Suddenly something happened. Singer reached for Canzoneri with a left jab-reached a little too far. Canzoneri shot his own left over, jarring -the champion's jaw. The punch was not particularly hard, but it flustered Singer. He stepped back to get his bearings, then launched...
Holder of no title but conceded by some critics to be the best boxer in the modern prizering, Chocolate's idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored...